toothless

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In the course of beatings, the guards broke all his teeth, leaving him toothless for four years.
他在被打的过程中，守卫打碎了他所有的牙，他的牙齿四年来都没有长出来。
TOOTHLESS and turbaned, the porters who loiter at Wagah, on the Indian side of the only border crossing by road with Pakistan, are a frustrated lot.
在瓦嘎（目前是印巴之间惟一开放的陆路边境），很多牙齿掉光、戴着头巾的搬运工四处徘徊，他们是失意的一群人。
Opponents of this approach complain that unless the targets are internationally binding, and there is a compliance mechanism to enforce them, any global agreement will be toothless.
反对这种做法的人们指出，除非这些目标具有国际约束力，且执行起来有章可循，否则任何全球协议都将失去威信。

Here is part of that poem: The bone tasted of nothing and smelled of nothing, A scalded toothless harp, uncrushed,unstrung.

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You use toothless to describe a person or their smile when they have no teeth.
If you describe something such as an official group or a law as toothless, you mean it has no real power and is not effective.